[IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting

2017-09-18 Thread Laura Vargas
Hi all, Hola a todos, Following the proposal to coordinate a Team/Event of contributors interested in upgrading Sugar UI, and with the purpose of defining this team/event main lines of action, I invite you all (designers and not designers) to the 1st Sugar Design Meeting 2017. It will take place

[IAEP] [SLOB] (1) travel advances and (2) external programs

2017-09-18 Thread Walter Bender
My apologies in advance for the length of this email. The lists have been overwhelmed of late with discussions of procedure and as a consequence, it feels as if technical and pedagogical discussions have seemingly been marginalized. --- I. TRAVEL ADVANCES We had two topics of discussion we were

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting

2017-09-18 Thread James Cameron
G'day Laura, You aren't a member of the design team, and none of the team have asked to meet. Issues for the design team are to be tagged in the sugar-devel@ mailing list, because the design team mostly work by e-mail. Your proposed agenda for this meeting does not justify a meeting.

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting

2017-09-18 Thread Laura Vargas
2017-09-18 20:22 GMT-05:00 James Cameron : > G'day Laura, > > You aren't a member of the design team... Can you please point me to the procedure to become a member? Last meeting in the wiki for such design team was August 26th 2012. I would say it is an abandoned team.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting

2017-09-18 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:30:06PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote: > > 2017-09-18 20:22 GMT-05:00 James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org>: > > G'day Laura, > > You aren't a member of the design team... > > Can you please point me to the procedure to become a member? No, it was a practice not a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting

2017-09-18 Thread Laura Vargas
2017-09-18 20:40 GMT-05:00 James Cameron : > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:30:06PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote: > > > > 2017-09-18 20:22 GMT-05:00 James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org>: > > > > G'day Laura, > > > > You aren't a member of the design team... > > > > Can you

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs Finance Committee [Was Re: Motion: To appoint Volunteer Laura Vargas as Sugar Labs Financial Manager [was Re: URGENT action needed]]

2017-09-18 Thread Walter Bender
I don't recall off hand all of the history. But Robert Fadel, a professional CPA, was one example. All of this is documented in the archives of the Sugar Digest. Feel free to look there. Re removing the reference to the finance committee, why not defer to whomever is appointed as the finance

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs Finance Committee [Was Re: Motion: To appoint Volunteer Laura Vargas as Sugar Labs Financial Manager [was Re: URGENT action needed]]

2017-09-18 Thread Laura Vargas
2017-09-18 18:55 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender : > I don't recall off hand all of the history. But Robert Fadel, a > professional CPA, was one example. All of this is documented in the > archives of the Sugar Digest. Feel free to look there. > I don't recall a Financial

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs Finance Committee [Was Re: Motion: To appoint Volunteer Laura Vargas as Sugar Labs Financial Manager [was Re: URGENT action needed]]

2017-09-18 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > > 2017-09-18 18:55 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender : > >> I don't recall off hand all of the history. But Robert Fadel, a >> professional CPA, was one example. All of this is documented in the >>

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs Finance Committee [Was Re: Motion: To appoint Volunteer Laura Vargas as Sugar Labs Financial Manager [was Re: URGENT action needed]]

2017-09-18 Thread Laura Vargas
2017-09-15 13:31 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender : > We appointed a few different FMs over the years, none of whom panned out. > Can you please share any reference to this FMs appointments? Shall we remove the reference to the existence of a "sugar labs finance committee" on

Re: [IAEP] The Father Of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed

2017-09-18 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Good read. Thx. > > Sameer > > On Sep 17, 2017 1:42 PM, "Dave Crossland" wrote: > >> https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab >> out-the-iphone-and-technology-now >> > For those